It is such a privilege to be with other Seniors as we met together for our Easter Dinner after conference. Even though it snowed most of the day and it was in the 20's.
Beautiful decorations with special ham dinner.
Everyone brought something to the dinner
I contributed some rolls of course.
It snowed from 11 am to 7 pm. Happy Easter!!! Spring started three weeks ago.
A special Easter story was related called "An Easter Story"
As Easter time approaches, let me share with you this tender story of an eleven year old boy named Philip, a Down's child who was in a Sunday School class with eight other children.
Easter Sunday the teacher brought an empty plastic egg for each child. They were instructed to go out of the church building on the grounds and put into the egg something that would remind them of the meaning of Easter.
All returned joyfully. As each egg was opened there were exclamations of delight at butterfly, a twig, a flower, a blade of grass. Then the last egg was opened. It was Phillip's , and it was empty!
Some of the children made fun of Philip. "But teacher," he said "teacher, the tomb was empty.".
A newspaper article announcing Phillip's death a few months later noted that at the conclusion of the funeral, eight children marched forward and put a large empty egg on the small casket. On it was a banner that said "The tomb was empty."
With John of old, we bear special witness and testify that "The Father sent the son to be the Savior of the world" 1 John 4:14 and that a major purpose of his sacred mission was to teach us how to love and serve on another.
Elder Marion D.Hanks
May Ensign 1992
